APC To Fayose: Stop Using Money From Rivers For Jamboree

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has advised Ekiti State governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, to stop using the money allegedly given to the state by his Rivers State counterpart, Chief Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, for payment of salaries of civil servants, for jamboree.

The party also described as dubious and unacceptable the alleged siphoning of funds of Rivers State by Wike to assist Fayose in paying off her civil servants’ six months salaries in order to be seen as a caring governor.

The APC, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday by its state chairman, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, accused the outgoing Ekiti State governor of sharing the funds to his lackeys, court jesters and political jobbers.

The statement reads in part, “We maintains that as much as we care for the plight of the Ekiti State workers but to use Rivers State funds to pay their salaries while our own GovernorNyesom Wike have refused to pay several months of salaries and pension owed our civil servants and pensioners is to us as robbing Peter in order to pay Paul.

“We note with sadness that instead of Governor Fayose using the said fund to pay the civil servants salaries as pleaded for during his last visit to Rivers State to commission some of the projects already commissioned by Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi during his tenure as the governor of Rivers State, he is busy sharing the funds to his lackeys, court jesters and political jobbers. This act and strategy is not only devious, diabolical but immoral to the highest order and unacceptable to us as a political party.

“We are at a loss that Fayose who has been complaining of paucity of funds now has turned to “Santa Claus” distributing cash, rice, chicken in large sizes and other gifts to some selected teachers, civil servant, traders to woo them to vote for his anointed candidate.”

He pleaded with the people of Ekiti State not to be deceived by Fayose as the Rivers State’s money he is misusing will be repaid immediately he leaves office no matter the odds.